An elementary treatise for instruction in the principles of the Christian religion, in the form of question and answer; such a book accepted and issued by a church as an authoritative exposition of its teaching, as the Longer Catechism and Shorter Catechism, of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, used by the Presbyterian churches, etc.
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Interviewer: Why? Are your parents really religious? Speaker: No. Like we used to just go- sometimes they 'd take us regularly but ah, we used to usually just go like on Christmas and Easter. And like, when I was- since I went to ah public-school, I had to go to Catechism-class they called it. Over at Saint-Gabriel's right behind the mall here. Yeah and it was about grade-six, we joined this new hockey-league, me and my brother. And it conflicted with Catechism-class, so out dad just said, "Oh, Okay. You guys can just play hockey. But we'll still do your studies so you can make your confirmations." But me and my brother never even made our confirmations. |
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church. |
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Um, family of four lived next door. And I found them fascinating. Um, the Lamports. Um, they all went to ah Holy-Rosary and um, when Madison who was a year younger than I, was studying for ah her- well was studying Catechism. I used to sit and hear her so that she would be able to say all the things. |
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church. |
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Interviewer: Right. Well, with the rise of academia, Christianity is done or atheism is coming. Speaker: Yeah, but- but then I think, you-know, all these things that we were taught basically almost brainwashed, you-know. You go to catechism and you're tol-- never explain anything. This is it, it's in your books, memorize it, okay, and th-- 'cause I had to go to catechism every Sunday th-- after church, after mass ah. Oh, I used to tell my mother I had a sore stomach. I just hated going to catechism but I had to go. And ah, you-know, to this day, I don't even remember anything we ever learned in catechism. Interviewer: (laughs). |
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church. |
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We would have to walk, we had- we had to go to church, eh? There was, ah, like, ah, some catechism being taught, eh? And we- so we had to walk there. Everything was walking. No rides. |
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church. |
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And then when we were going to catechism- we used to walk to catechism to Barry's-Bay. |
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church. |
Speaker: Always in the summer. That's when you made your First-Communion. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: Yeah because that time you were only taught the Our-Father in the school. There wasn't any catechism. Interviewer: Oh, okay. |
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church. |
Speaker: So we had to go to church here maybe for six weeks to get catechism. Interviewer: Oh, yeah. Speaker: For our First-Communion. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And then for Confirmation when you were older you went again. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And you got some more co-- catechism. But that time you had to be able to say your Our-Father, your Hail-Mary, a- an act of contrition. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Like the priests made sure you said it. |
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church. |